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Thomas Brock
Forgotten Sculptor of the Victoria Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is a national icon, yet few have heard of its sculptor, Thomas Brock. He left school at 12 to be an apprentice at the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works, then joined the London studio of John Henry Foley. He completed the figure of the Prince Consort...
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Una Pequeña Aclaración
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2014
La solidez de una pisada es sostenida por lo que no puede ser pisado por ella -Luis Felipe Passalacqua l, presencia espiritual desdoblada en mltiples yo biogrficos recorre las ruinas de la Finca La Reata en Guaynabo donde, entre el recuerdo y el imaginario reflexivo, enfrenta el vrtice de lo que fuera...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The classic study of alienation, existentialism, and how great artists have portrayed characters who exist on the margins of society.
Published to immense acclaim in the mid-1950s, The Outsider helped make popular the literary concept of existentialism. Authors like Sartre, Kafka, Hemingway,...
Old In Art School
A Memoir of Starting Over
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
**One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Top Books of Summer
"Old in Art School is a glorious achievement—bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and...
River of Shadows
Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004
**Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize
Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Men Explain Things to Me explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to become...
Fire in the Belly
The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
“[Fire in the Belly is] unimprovable as a biography-thorough, measured, beautifully written, loving but not uncritical-as a concentrated history of his times, and as a memorial.” -Luc Sante, Bookforum
David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school,...
My Love Affair with Modern Art
Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A memoir of the twentieth-century art world, from the famed Art Institute of Chicago curator, critic, and historian.
Katharine Kuh made it her personal mission to bring modern art to the people of America. In 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, she opened Chicago’s first commercial...
by Steve Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Adult movie actress and entrepreneur. Born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Lawrence and Judith Massoli. Lawrence was a local constable, and Judith was a showgirl on the Las Vegas Strip. Jameson had only a few years with her mother, who died from skin cancer cells on...
by Charles M. Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's...
Leonardo da Vinci
La biografía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2018
El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio más creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biografía.
Basándose en las miles de páginas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra,...
Grand Avenues
The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached...
by Nadjer Ibrahim
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
I've always wanted to tell my story but never had that push to do it. It was a pleasant morning of weekend when I finally realized that my personal story must be told considering that I've been through a lot since my childhood aside from being so desperate to making some extra income for my sister's...
John William Waterhouse
Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
John William Waterhouse was an English painter famous for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. His early works were not Pre-Raphaelite in nature, but were of classical themes in the spirit of Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton. He painted several decades after the break-up of the Pre-Raphaelite...
by Steve Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
About Carol Burnett
An iconic figure in the history of American television funny and a motivation to both female and male comics for almost 50 years, Carol Burnett rose from a difficult childhood to become one of the most cherished performers on television, both as a highlighted entertainer...